Fixing Net Neutrality and Broadband in America

FCC Gang of Three

Summary of the FCC Gang of Three & Their Helpers

Chairman Ajit Pai

Former Verizon Attorney, Close Ties to ALEC. Rewrote the history of broadband and never mentioned that AT&T never delivered the fiber optic services in his home state—Kansas—but had state laws changed to charge phone customers for the ‘transition’.

Worked at Wiley Rein as a lawyer for Verizon, AT&T, Centurylink, as well as the CTIA, the wireless association and USTA, the phone company association. Failed to disclose work done for these companies in congressional testimony.

AT&T, Verizon control through ALEC and funding politicians. Model legislation is created that mimics the FCC’s plans, and then it goes to state-based politicians, funded by the companies, to pass the bills.